Delaware News Journal
Fifty-one state employees made more than $200,000 in 2020, nearly double the number of people who made that sum the year before.
That s according to a database of state employee salaries provided by the state Office of Management and Budget.
The plethora of high earners is due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic demanding more hours of top health officials and Black Lives Matter protests prompting police to clock in an unrivaled amount of overtime.
Dr. Rick Hong, the medical director of the Division of Public Health, was the highest-paid employee last year – and the only employee to make above $300,000. His total earnings amounted to $301,321, which includes overtime and other earnings.
Toilets remain one of humankindâs most ingenious engineering feats. But while the most advanced bidets can wash themselves (along with other parts), they canât fix themselvesâyet.
Plumbing is just one of many good-paying skilled trades that remain in high demand but which have largely been glossed over by the education technology industry, says Doug Donovan, co-founder and CEO of Interplay Learning. âThereâs been a lot of great edtech serving the knowledge worker, such as tools like Pluralsight. But thereâs a vacuum in the digital marketplace for skills for hands-on workers.â
His company has set out to create a digital education platform similar to Lynda.com, but focused on hands-on trades. And the effort is attracting some of the most active education investors that are venturing into skilled labor for the first time.